Panthers held practice todayat BankAtlantic Center and my coleague Craig Davis covered for me. The no-shows were Kris Versteeg, Sean Bergenheim and Greg Rallo – who was sent back to San Antonio after making his NHL debut at age 30 in Sunday’s game. At least he can say he made it to the ’show.’
The Panthers recalled F Tim Kennedy to take the place of Bergenheim (groin), who is out for tomorrow’s game against Phoenix. The Panthers will need to call up one more player with Rallo shipped out as well. Dineen told reporters that Versteeg isn’t injured, just a maintenance day. Versteeg took two wicked shots into the boards yesterday. Let’s hope he had no lingering effects. If you recall he had his nose busted a few weeks ago on a cheap hit by Carolina’s Joslin.

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Harvey.. GOOD! It’s time to remove these fools who mock other posters. Most of us want to talk hockey, not insult everyone. That being said, If Dadanov or Repik has to come up, I vote Repik. These injuries are going t ostart mounting and I think a trade may be in the works.

I wish they had a bigger and stronger player to call up. Kennedy, Repik and Dadonov don’t have the size and strength they are missing. Gotta hope that Skille’s shoulder isn’t as bad as it looked when he went off the ice. Separations can be trouble.

Bill Thomas did fine last year in the 24 games he was up with the Panthers. I just looked up his stats and he had 4 goals and 3 assists, 19 hits and 10 blocked shots in 24 games. And I think he was only getting 9-10 minutes a game. I also looked up his stats in San Antonio and he’s right behind Kearns for the team lead in scoring with 9 goals and 8 assists and he’s plus 11. I wonder why they haven’t called him up yet.

HARVEY FIALKOV, a tennis-playing sportswriter who grew up in Long Island following the dynastic Islanders, is the new Panthers beat writer for the Sun Sentinel and looking forward to writing about the best professional sports team in Broward County.